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The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering

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